{"id":12924,"date":"2025-04-21T15:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotslion.co.uk\/?page_id=12924"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:01:44","slug":"mv-southsea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scotslion.co.uk\/home-page\/mv-southsea\/","title":{"rendered":"MV Southsea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not many folk realise, but there were very important lessons learnt from saving the MV Southsea from the scrapyard (well for 6 years and then it was the \u201cSouthsea Society\u201d ship preservation society that had a dose of bad luck). 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